The Andrews of Bryant Station
Ancient red cedars at Haynes Cemetery Decoration Day is coming up at Hayne’s Cemetery, and my old friend Joe Hedrick has a family connection to the place, as do I. About this time of year, we generally have a conversation about Haynes and our ancestors who are buried there. He told me today that, when he was a kid, he’d heard his grandmother Ada Mai Roberts speak often and glowingly of my grandparents Bob and Hattie White. “Are we...
Henry Horton Trap and Skeet
The establishment of the Henry Horton State Park Trap and Skeet Range in Chapel Hill, Tennessee began with a conversation between Governor Buford Ellington and his good friend Sam Linton, a Marshall County industrialist and sportsman. Governor Buford Ellington Newly elected to his third, non-consecutive term, Governor Ellington asked Mr. Linton, “What can we do for Marshall County?” Linton replied, “Our community...
Holy Ground
Haynes Cemetery always has been hallowed ground to me. Mostly because I remember, from when I was a small boy, the Saturday before Mother’s Day, my hard-working dad Jack White would load up his push mower, hand-operated grass clippers, and other yard supplies and head out in his ’55 Ford to the country, to Scribner’s Mill, where he’d join other men and women who would help spruce up Haynes prior to Decoration....
Miss Lizzie Porter
When I was a boy, there was a mysterious elderly lady who lived in an old decrepit house on the corner of West 6th and North High. Sadly, she was the subject of a lot of jokes and wild stories, mainly because she sat on her porch in all kinds of weather, surrounded by chickens, and occasionally with a side by side shotgun across her lap. Nobody, especially a kid of twelve years old, considered that she had an especially rich past tied...
The Pointing Dog Social Club
The Pointing Dog Social Club is a 30-minute outdoor/musical variety show produced through a collaboration among WKRM Radio (Kennedy Broadcasting Company), lilDRAGON Entertainment, CountryRoad.TV, Marshall County Community Theatre, The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, and Spotted Dog Productions. 🎥 The show is filmed and recorded at the famous Dixie Theatre, a classic 1930’s venue located in historic Lewisburg, Tennessee, The...